Thread by @AnnaCaudill4

The thing about #CovenantSchool that should scare every last Tennessean is no matter how exclusive your private school, no matter how Christian, no matter how armed the teachers are or how well-prepared staff are, a shooter can still kill your kids, & @TNGOP won’t help you. 1/

In fact, if you enroll your kids in a TN private Christian school, & teachers are armed, & active shooter prep exceeds police expectations, & a shooter *still* kills children, you don’t *dare* approach your @TNGOP supermajority on your children’s behalf. 2/

https://twitter.com/annacaudill4/status/1647474040519393281

Because if you petition your @TNGOP for the sanctity of your children’s lives at school, even a well-prepared teachers-armed exclusive private Christian school, & even if you are nonviolent & sing gospel songs, you will be called a violent extremist. 3/

https://twitter.com/thetnholler/status/1647308545988128772

And if your Christian children survive a shooting at their well-prepared teacher-armed private Christian school & they join you singing Gospel songs in the State Capitol to beg mercy for their lives, your children will be asked by @TNGOP to choose the weapon of their execution.4/

https://twitter.com/jhollymc/status/1643108205826916352

And if your well-prepped, teacher-armed, private Christian school has a shooting & your kids are asked to choose a gun to be shot w/ & you protest & are called insurrectionist until a compassionate Black lawmaker tells you don’t give up, @TNGOP will say he attacked democracy. 5/

https://twitter.com/AnnaCaudill4/status/1645634535990648832

And if @TNGOP expels 3 lawmakers for defending your voice as you sang gospel songs in protest because no child is safe in TN schools no matter how Christian or private or prepped or armed the teachers are, & the whole world is watching, you will be judged based on your hotness.6/

https://twitter.com/jadamlowe/status/1649573768673607681

And even if the largest evangelical Christian denomination in the world asks your @TNGOP to pass gun reform to save children’s lives, after you’ve protested the slaughter of innocents & been branded both “attractive” & “violent insurrectionist,” your lawmakers will run scared. 7/

https://twitter.com/annacaudill4/status/1649579758093565953

You won’t see @TNGOP placing flowers at your baby’s school after a shooting, no matter how private & Christian it is. You won’t see them cry with you, or respect the right of peaceful assembly, or even holding a moment of silence.
Because no matter what, #ItsTheGuns they love./f

PS—And don’t think for a minute that memorializing the victims of a school shooting when you go to the State Capitol will be respected. #ItsTheGuns @TNGOP loves, not the children.

https://twitter.com/thetnholler/status/1640877938785632256

PS2–Audrey Hale went to #CovenantSchool. Her parents are churchgoing Christians who had her in therapy & who took away the guns she had because they knew she was at risk. @GovBillLee rejected a 2019 Red Flag law that would have kept her from buying the guns she used on 3/27.

No amount of private Christian school will protect your child from becoming a school shooter or a school shooting victim or survivor, so long as @TNGOP loves guns more than children. #ItsTheGuns

For anyone reading who is not white, Christian, or private school. I recognize my Black, Brown, Asian, Jewish, Muslim, LGBTQ+ neighbors BEEN saying #ItsTheGuns too long. Now it’s happened to white middle class Christian families, I want them to know. The privilege train has gone.

I worked in these spaces for years. My hope is i can use the respect I’ve earned in my faith community, by way of 27+ years of lived witness here in Nashville, to help my brothers, sisters, & others see as long as #ItsTheGuns @TNGOP loves more than babies, nobody’s safe.